(Jacques Maurais, ed.) In this essay, the author discusses the future of the Mohawk language and it’s current state of survivance. If Canada is so concerned of what might disappear (endangered species, namely), should it not, asks the author, be concerned as well with its first languages? If anything, the Oka Crisis showed that the Mohawk people are alive and will stand together together assimilation policies and the Indian Act. Through education, Mohawk youth will learn about their history and their language; the author thus calls for funding through the different provincial ministeries.
